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The Greenwich Pensioner   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton (probably)

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
The Greenwich Pensioner
Description
English: An illustration to the song 'By Mr. Dibdin' which is engraved beneath the title. The old pensioner with a wooden leg, a pipe in his left hand, a cudgel under his left arm, stands, directed to the left, pointing across the Thames at the river front of Greenwich Hospital, but looking towards the spectator. The stern of a ship with partly furled sails is visible on the left. The song ends:



'Altho I'm quite disabled
And lie in Greenwich tier,
The King, God bless his royalty,
Who saved me from the main,
I'll praise with love and loyalty,
But ne'er to Sea again.' c.1790


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Depicted people Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom
Date between 1790 and 1791
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.35
Notes

Dorothy George notes that the original watercolour by Dighton for this print was sold at Sotheby's on 30 April 1953.

Sayer/Laurie & Whittle published a posture mezzotint with the title 'Greenwich Pensioners', number 262 in their catalogue of 1795 (reproduced in Chaloner Smith 1753-64).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-35
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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